Litz

Title: Litz
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Subject: Bird of Paradise
Size: 60 x 60 cms
Year: 2024
 
 
Litz is a bold, atmospheric piece that merges botanical grace with urban texture. Set against a moody, industrial background streaked with white drips and layered textures, a sculptural rendering of a plant rises in quiet defiance. Featuring the Strelitzia reginae, commonly known as the Bird of Paradise—a plant revered for its exotic, architectural form and symbolic associations with freedom, transformation, and elegance. Here, the plant is stripped of its vibrant color, rendered instead in earthy, muted tones that echo wood and bark, creating a raw, elemental presence. The abstract streaks and drips surrounding the form evoke rain, decay, or perhaps city walls eroded by time—offering a narrative of resilience in contrast to chaos. Litz speaks to survival and serenity in harsh environments. A juxtaposition of nature and structure, silence and intensity—it invites viewers to find beauty in stillness and strength in the unexpected.